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Price of petrol powered equipment in Ireland

  • 13-02-2011 5:19pm
    #1
    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭


    I'm not sure if there is a more appropriate forum for this

    but how come everything like power washers, mowers, etc. costs so much more over here than elsewhere.

    in the States you can get a decent petrol power washer for less than $300. Here you'd be hard pushed to find one under 400 euros. Even in England it is a lot cheaper. Why is that? is there an extra import tariff on petrol powered equipment?


Comments

  • #2
    Alanstrainor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,157 ✭✭✭✭Alanstrainor


    It's probably just that there's little or no demand for it here.


  • #3
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    How come any consumer product costs more in Ireland than in the UK or the USA?


  • #4
    jaffa20
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,565 ✭✭✭jaffa20


    3 words

    Rip off Ireland.


  • #5
    longhalloween
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    Maybe because Ireland is a small bankrupt economy and not really worth the time of international distributors. :(


  • #6
    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Ghost Estate


    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    It's probably just that there's little or no demand for it here.
    longhalloween wrote: »
    Maybe because Ireland is a small bankrupt economy and not really worth the time of international distributors. :(

    Plenty of the stuff around but its hugely overpriced.


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  • #7
    billyboy01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 270 ✭✭billyboy01


    Ireland is a high tax, but low quality services country!:( AKA Corrupt State!

    Go up to the North, if you want a petrol power washer!:)

    I buy most things up there! Especially car parts! Tyres for one are 30pc cheaper!


  • #8
    Owen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Just unpopular - shops stock this stuff, but who regularly buys it? Anyone I know with a hedge trimmers or strimmer has an electric one.


  • #9
    Ghost Estate
    Closed Accounts Posts: 559 ✭✭✭Ghost Estate


    PaintDoctor wrote: »
    Just unpopular - shops stock this stuff, but who regularly buys it? Anyone I know with a hedge trimmers or strimmer has an electric one.

    I can't think of anyone I know who doesn't have at least some petrol powered stuff

    During the Tiger years anyone with more than three blades of grass to cut had to buy a roide on. You'd think they'd be dirt cheap by now


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